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Graut is at Karagwe with a game leg, and I am sending boats 
for him. His last letter to me is enclosed, also a map of the 
country, which you had better send to England, together with 
this, by the first opportunity. I would go across the Massai 
country at once to Zanzibar ; but considering your promise to 
keep two or three boats two or three years for me, I sacrifice 
everything to fulfil the engagement. A photographic machine 
would be very useful here, for the Court is very splendid. You 
need not trouble yourself with a sextant, for I have three, but 
compass your route carefully. If Baraka reaches you, bring 
him up this way; we will then all go in boats to Bumanika’s, 
King of Karagwe. Mind Kumaniki and Kamrasi, King of 
Unyoro, are brothers-in-law, but M’tessa is Kamrasi’s enemy. 
However, I am trying to patch up their war by telling M’tessa 
he is the King of the Luta Kzigi, and Uganda is his graziug- 
grounds; that he should send a present toKamarasi and become 
friends with him. You may tell Kamarasi this ; and say I am a 
very great man, anxious to see him, if he will let you come here 
and fetch me away. I am very hard up for tobacco, and have 
neither brandy nor tea. All the things I have asked for are for 
myself, nobody else need give a present. I cannot write any 
more letters, for I have a whole year’s collection. Unyanyembe 
waiting for an opportunity to reach Zanzibar. 
“ J. H. SPEKE.” 
The efllect of this, the most fearful rainy season any one attached 
to our expedition now collected at this point — two hundred and 
twenty men — had ever experienced, was to produce climatic fever 
and sickness of various descriptions. To this the first to succumb 
was our botanist, poor Brownell, who died on the 20th May, and 
whom we buried in about the 8° North latitude, at a bend in the 
